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Record-Breaking Galaxy Found In Deep Hubble Image

The Bad Astronomer writes "Astronomers using Hubble Space Telescope have found a galaxy at the very edge of the Universe: the light from this far-flung object has been traveling a whopping 13.1 billion years to get here! The galaxy appears as a non-descript dot in the infrared Hubble Ultra Deep Field taken using the Wide Field Camera 3, but a spectrum taken using a ground-based telescope confirms that we're seeing this object as it was a mere 600 million years after the Big Bang itself."

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  1. Re:Does it still exist? by CrashandDie · · Score: 4, Funny

    The discipline that applies into everything, but in itself is about nothing (real).

    I think you'll find that math is in fact a lot about reals.